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From: "June Penny" <>
Subject: Re: Migration
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:34:03 +1000


Many Thanks Bevan
You give me heart - I have suspected James Rab(e)y from Norwich received
assistance from poor or church relief of some sort to come to Australia. Our
family is in debt to St Clements Norwich and Brinton for heaps of poor law
payments made to his parents! James arrived in Australia about 1850, married
in Adelaide S.A. in 1852 -The example letter from Adelaide in 1847 is good
news - now I just need a lead to discover which scheme came to his rescue or
where he may have hopped onto a ship!
June Penny
Canberra - the Nations Capital

SNIP>I have a copy of a book with the title "Labouring Life in Norfolk
Villages
>1834-1914" written by L. Marion Springall and first published in 1936.
>Referring to the reform of the administration of poor relief in the late
>1830s, the author says:
>Only one of the other letters quoted gives the writer's name - a T. Earl of
>Holt, who emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia. His letter (dated 11
>April 1847, to his parents)

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